Paraphrase Set 6 Flashcards
War
- Engage in combat
- Conflict
- Go into battle
- Attack others
Doubt on the abilities
Scepticism placed / levied on their capabilities
Condescendingly dismissed
- Scorned
- Mocked
- Patronised
- Sneered at
For condescending: disdainfully / derisively
Give a wide berth
Give the meaning as well
Meaning: steer clear of or stay away from
Avoid:
- interactions
- engagement
- developing connections
Audacity
- Temerity
- boldness
- dares
Albatross
Give the meaning as well
Meaning: someone or something you want to be free because it is causing problems for you
- Burden
- weight
- load
- encumbrance
Admirers
- followers
- supporters
Venerated
- High esteem
- Adored
- Revered
Surrounds
- encircles
- enfolds
- encompasses
More likely to get ahead in life
- greater probability…
- greater prospect…
in succeeding
Accorded favours
Accorded…
- favoured
- privileges
- superior
Improve and do better
- flourish
- thrive
- prosper
- blossom
- be successful
- get to the top
- make good or excel
Opportunities to secure funding
- gaining capital
- procuring investors
Turn the spotlight on issues that most people sideline
- drawing attention to
- focus
- highlight
- underscore
Sidelined: the obscure
Expend a lot of more energy
(Flip opposite)
reduced
- effort
- pain
- bother
- exertion
- more easily
Higher success rates in procreation
- greater
- better chance
For procreation:
- to breed
- to reproduce
- have offspring / heirs / children
Diminish their efforts to foster relationships
- have the leeway to reduce time
- reduce energy to maintain:
For relationships,
- bonds
- affiliations
- links
- contacts
- affinity
- connections
Better able to invest in…reduced psychological issues
- devote
- expend
- endow
- spend on
Psychological: social-emotional health
Politicians who turn heads can hold sway over their voters
- increase the credibility of
- increase the influence of:
Leaders / head of governments
